Its been two weeks since the Georgia Northern Mountain District Tournament, the qualifier for the National Forensic League Tournament during this upcoming summer. No one had posted anything about Grady’s latest success in all this chaos:

Policy: John Holland & Minh Lam, Holden Choi and Michael Barlow

Public Forum: Michael Robinson & Lucas Bailey

Lincoln Douglas: Stephanie Styles, Tyler Olson

Original Oratory: Scott Bremer, Demarius Walker

Duo Interpretation: Hannah Mitchell, Wesley Powell

Humorous Interpretation: Matt Ward

Dramatic Interpretation: Taylor Walker

International Extemp:  Damon Melton

United States Extemp: Leith Meador

We also had many team members qualify for the Catholic Forensic League National Tournament that will be in May during Memorial Weekend [in Albany, NY; nice, huh].  Those qualifying to Grand Nationals are:

Policy Debate:  John Holland and Michael Barlow

Lincoln-Douglas Debate:  Stephanie Styles

Original Oratory:  Scott Bremer

Dramatic Interpretation:  Hannah Mitchell, Hannah Snowden, Wesley Powell

Extemporaneous Speaking:  Emily Atkinson, Damon Melton

Public Forum Debate:  Michael Robinson and Lucas Bailey

As a happy side note, the entire speech and forensics team looks forward to the new hair styles our wonderful coaches will be sporting very soon, courtesy of our many students heading to nationals.